Our Civic Committee is using its influence toward the improvement 
of the Roadway and Park plantings. 
We co-operate with the Horticultural Society in offering prizes and 
judging the planting of school grounds, and each year have conducted 
a successful tearoom at the Municipal Flower Show, which we have 
financed. 
Ada B. Welborn, President. 
The Garden Club of East Hampton continued its usual activities Garden Club [ 
during the past two years. Meetings were held twice a month during of East 
the summer, with good average attendance, and in winter the Execu- Hampton, L.I. | 
tive Committee, consisting of ten officers and members, outhned New York 
programs for the following season. 
Interesting lectures were given by Mr. Leonard Barron, Mr. H. G. 
Faulkner, Mrs. Frances King, Miss Coffin, Mr. E. H. Wilson, and Mr. 
Thilow. Talks were given also by several members of the Club : one a 
fascinating sketch on the significance of flowers in Japan; another on 
general garden subjects given in a lovely old garden, where questions 
were answered by the hostess, and much valuable information given, 
and a third on California gardens, illustrated with colored slides. 
Occasions remembered with particular pleasure were visits to the 
gardens of our neighboring Club in Southampton, and to Miss Fish's 
garden in Greenport. 
At the Annual Flower Show this year one of our members ex- 
hibited an extensive collection of native wild flowers. The variety and 
charm were a surprise. The Club felt this opened an opportum'ty 
for protection, and, possibly, experimental transplanting, which would 
be instructive, as well as interesting. It is planned, accordingly, to 
have wild flowers shown at each meeting, with the purpose of preparing 
an herbarium, for reference, to be placed in our local Public Library. 
It was decided in the fall of 1919 to start an experimental garden, 
in an effort to produce seed of Delphinium true to a chosen type. At 
the present time we have for the test a flourishing collection of speci- 
mens from EngHsh seed. Plants were discarded and sold which did not 
meet exactly our requirements. Seed saved from the remaining plants 
will be sown for a continuance of the test next year. 
The Club does no special civic work, as a local organization, in 
which most of our members are interested, exists for that purpose; 
It is planned, however, to make a donation toward a scholarship in the 
School of Horticulture for Women at Ambler, Pennsylvania. 
The season usually ends with an experience meeting where each 
one recounts her successes and failures. 
Elizabeth E. Lockwood. 
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